First Marriage Then Love 《先婚厚爱》Chapter 10 Translation

010. The sudden kiss

Although she doesn’t know whether or not Su Yi Cheng will know where to pick her up, once An Ran knocked off work, nevertheless, she ran towards the front doors to have a look see.  Of course, she does not see any unfamiliar cars, and she does not see him. She turns back to go to the company garage to start her car, however after taking two or three steps, she sighs and takes out her cellphone to call him.

The call was received quite quickly, so much that An Ran didn’t even get to open her mouth, he immediately spoke once the call connected, “Stand at the front door, I’ll be there right away.”

“You…You know where I work?” An Ran can’t help but ask skeptically.

Su Yi Cheng stays silent, and only smiles. It was silent for 10 seconds, when she hears him say, “I’m here. An Ran, did you come out yet? I don’t see you.”

“Eh…” An Ran blanked, soon after, she runs towards the company’s main entrance. Sure enough, she sees him come out of his car, holding his cellphone, and smiling at her.

An Ran ends the call, walking to him in a daze. After spending a few good minutes staring at him, she finally blurts out and asks, “How did you know I work here!” 

Su Yi Cheng laughs, reaches out to brush aside a strand of her hair that fell out in front of her forehead, and says, “You’re my wife, of course I know where you work.”

“But I didn’t even tell you!” That’s the most important point—she didn’t even say so much as to what field she works in, how in the world did he know?

“I have my ways.” Su Yi Cheng chuckles. Really, with his status, it’s not that hard to do a search on a person; he can just give her name to Secretary Zheng, have him pass it through the city’s Human Resource Department to look up her profile and record. So to find out where she works, to him it’s no big deal.

Su Yi Cheng reaches out to grab the bag in her hand, and says to An Ran, “Let’s go. Where did you reserve your table, I can bring you over there. Might as well look over the dishes.”

He acts so naturally, he speaks as if it’s a matter of course. An Ran has a moment where she cannot find the words to speak, and takes a few minutes to get over her shock. She hastily takes back her bag from him, her face is also flushed with red, and says, “Uh, that, that I, I brought my own car here.”

Su Yi Cheng takes in her bashful and uneasy appearance, his smile gets wider, and he says, “It’s okay, you don’t have work tomorrow. If anything comes up you can take my car, and on Monday I can drive you to work.”

“Uh…” She was shocked once again by his words, unable to find a response. Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and Monday. So what he’s saying is that from now on every day they will live together? Isn’t that too fast! She hasn’t even discussed with him, what their lifestyle will be like, after all this kind of marriage is pretty strange! “Uh, that, I, I think we should first talk this through thoroughly.”

Hearing that, the corner of his mouth slightly rises to a smile, he looks at her and asks, “Talk about what?”

“Talk about how we’re going to interact from now on.” An Ran says.

Su Yi Cheng smiles, looks at his watch, and asks instead, “Where did you book your table for this evening, and what time?”

“You Ran Restaurant, 6:30, why?” An Ran answers automatically.

 Su Yi Cheng points at his watch and says, “It’s 5:45 right now, to get from here to You Ran Restaurant would take about 20 minutes of travel. Furthermore, it’s rush hour right now, can’t guarantee that there won’t be a traffic jam, so, do you think we’ll have any time to talk about our interactions with each other?”

“Uh.” An Ran blanks, and looks at her cellphone. Honestly, what he says is true, she actually does not have any time left. She raises her head, determined to ask him when he would have free time, and they will set up a time to clearly discuss this. But seeing how he has already opened the door to his car, smiling and looking at her, “Get in.”

His amiable smile can really confuse a person, make a person feel comfortable, like a spring breeze.

Seeing how slow she is with movement, Su Yi Cheng slightly wrinkles his brows and frowns, he asks, “What’s up?”

“You… also want to come?” An Ran asks. She doesn’t know if her parents learned that she went through this lightning wedding, there’s no way they wouldn’t not be surprised. She was actually thinking of brushing it off for two days first to see what they would think of it. Then, after a period of time, she would arrange for them to meet him.

“Is there a problem?” Su Yi Cheng asks instead, and frowns.

An Ran opens and closes her mouth, she was actually thinking of not letting him come, after all this is a family party. He’s a stranger, and having him come would be inappropriate. But as the words reach her mouth, it stiffens. She thinks of the marriage certificate in her bag; ‘Stranger’... doesn't exactly match with the words on that paper. And with this situation and his status right now, indeed, he ought to be attending.

“Hm?” Su Yi Cheng probes.

An Ran starts to think about that blind date earlier this noon, she heard that he said there was something about returning home this evening, and quickly said, “You, your call from noon, didn’t you say that you had to return home this evening? So you should not have any time this evening, right!”

Hearing this, Su Yi Cheng smiles, “I have to allocate what’s important and what’s not. I can come home any day, today is my mother-in-law’s birthday, of course I must attend. That’s enough, get on. If you delay any longer you really won’t make it on time.” He says as he pushes An Ran into the car, closes the door, winds around the car and gets into the driver’s seat.

In An Ran’s eyes, she is still not herself, blankly seeing that he hasn’t fastened his seatbelt. Su Yi Cheng breaks into laughter and shakes his head, rising from his seat to fasten her seatbelt.

An Ran’s spirit returns as soon as he stretches his body. She hasn’t agreed to this kind of intimacy. Shyly, she thought of pushing him away, and quickly says, “I-I-I, I can do it myself, myself I can do.”

“Don’t move.” Su Yi Cheng speaks into her ears with a deep and low voice.

The two were sticking very closely. Su Yi Cheng could smell the natural sweet scent of her body, not wearing any perfume. He can also see her small face slightly flushing with redness, which he knows is because of shyness, but this kind of bashful appearance at this moment, to him it looks especially adorable, and especially alluring.

An Ran dares not move. She sits upright and still, holding her breath and watching him, hoping that he would hurry and fasten it and go back to his seat.

The reservation that doesn’t allow her to budge somehow provokes Su Yi Cheng to laugh, but the way she is right now is apparently even more attractive to him.  The self-control that he previously believed to be pretty strong has completely collapsed at this moment. He leans forward, his lips land on her’s precisely. Her lips were really soft; the kiss seemingly carries out a sweet flavour. He doesn’t know whether or not she had eaten candy beforehand, but he likes this flavour.

The kiss did not go on for very long. As Su Yi Cheng lets go of her. Because of the kiss that had just finished, An Ran foolishly lags behind. Her eyes open wide, her expression wooden.

Seeing her spaced-out appearance, Su Yi Cheng can’t help but break into laughter. He softly shakes his head, faces forward, and starts the car to leave.

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*squeals* ;) Su Yi Cheng you sly sly bastard. Also, sorry for the change in formatting, I'm still trying to find the best one for smoother reading!